A large part of the problem seems to be that the cake was made to conform to the dimensions of the precut cardboard liner and plastic box. I don't think this travesty can be laid solely at the feet of the poor embattled CCC.

oh wow!see i like cupcakes...and i like cake. but just put a bunch of cupcakes on a plate each individually decorated. that looks like a 6-toed demon cat getting attacked by gumby's long lost headless blue twin brothers.UK fans, i feel sorry for you.

I love this blog but sometimes my geekiness fails and my dear husband (king computer geek) has to explain references.Hangs head in shame :-(wv-sionip (not sure what it it but sound like something scifi caracters do to each other.)

That's one of the funniest CCCs I've ever seen. I'm grateful you showed us what it was SUPPOSED to look like for 2 reasons: 1-I really wouldn't have known what it was supposed to be without it, and 2-The comparison is hil.ar.i.ous!

This is for the University of Kentucky Wildcats, my Alma Matter. SO SAD! UK fans are notorious for Wildcat grooms cakes -- and everyone I have seen has been beautiful! This CCC cake might as well represent our current basketball season.. booo!!

ok I gotta say, I blame whoever ordered this cake; CCCs are bad enough when there's a ready-made design- it's hard to create one from a picture, and I'm betting it was made from the exact number of cupcakes the customer wanted and no more- I'm not excusing the technique, but if the decorator in question had had more cupcakes to work with I bet it would have looked a lot more like the picture. I wonder if customers such as these intentionally order CCCs with intricate logos in hopes of being able to submit them to this site. poor decorator probably didn't even take the order!

Did anyone else notice that this cat seems to defy laws of gravity and nature? I mean, he either has two hands on one side of his body while both his feet are on the completely opposite side or he can walk and kick in pretty much a horizontal fashion without crashing.

Not that it doesn't look like he already had a ridiculous accident . . .

I actually think this MUST be social commentary on the state of UK basketball - all coming apart and discombobulated and too many claws, I don't know, I'm making this up here. Because, I'm telling you, someone could get killed for that in normal times in cat country!

WV: defacurn - what may happen to that cake if any cat fans find themselves in that bakery

It doesn't say of the submitter requested the team logo as a CCC. If that't the case, she totally got what she deserved. Then it's not really a wreck because she requested something beyond the aesthetic limits of a CCC. Why would you ever think that would come out looking good? If the wrecorator just decided to make that, then it's a true wreck.

Awesome! So many great things going on here...six claws for five toes, two paws growing from the same spot on the right side, the weird mess that is the "face," and the inexplicably warped "U". Good stuff.

However, as someone else also pointed out, whoever requested something this complex as a CCC probably deserved all of this. That request probably scared the poor grocery store decorator to death. Still, I think there could have been some steps that he or she could have taken to prevent this tragic misfortune:

When facing down a customer who requests a complex design *and* an "easy-to-eat, super-fun, state-of-the-art cupcake cake!" (the fallacies of this viewpoint have already been dismantled elsewhere on this site), first gently suggest a nice sheet cake: "Gosh, crazy cupcake-obsessed lady! This is certainly a very cool logo! I think it would look much, much better on a nice, yellow sheet cake. I can make it a lot bigger that way." If the customer persists, I suppose the next best bet is to push the cupcakes into a square shape, apply frosting liberally, and then paint the logo and pretend it's on a sheet cake.

Then again, if you're paid in advance, why not test the limits of your CCC prowess?

P.S. Is it possibly a fan of a rival school of the University of Kentucky ordered this? "Yeah...make it look really, really ugly. Bonus points if it's barely recognizable."

WOW! There are SOOOO many things wrong with this, um, 'cake' - but whats really confusing is there is a huge wide open orange area there above the U thingy so why in the world didn't they at least make it look like a U?

I stumbled upon your blog from passiveaggressivenotes.com, and I must say I'm happy I did. I'm in the middle of a hectic semester of college, and these posts are a welcome respite. Keep the wrecks coming!

Ok, I have to know, how much of Star Trek have you seen? My husband and I started the original series about 3 years ago and we just started the last season of Voyager this week. We already watched Enterprise with Capt. Archer somewhere in the middle of all that. I love being able to catch onto all your Star Trek jokes!

This made my day! I'm a Kentucky girl, but I hate the Wildcats with a fiery passion. I see the horribly mutated cat as commentary on what the team has been ever since Rick Pitino left like 10 years ago.

This wreck is also making me seriously reconsider my plans for a Florida Gators birthday cake this year...

One would think, that in a world of plastic flotsam, the decorator (or orderer) could have come up with a better soulution than a cupcake-cake. I mean, a simple google search came up with this Sure, I'm not entirely sure what they are, but hey, they're edible AND kosher.

I would totally buy this CCC if I saw it in the store. I know that it's a horrendous representation of the U of Kentucky logo, but as a colorful and almost abstract image of a cat made out of cupcakes, I love it! :) Now if this logo was on a regular sheet cake, I don't know if it would be as awesomely abstract (too bad they weren't going for abstract)!

Amy said... "Looks like it got dropped on the floor."********Actually, it looks like something that SHOULD be dropped on the floor. Forcefully, and with malice aforethought. Right-side down.Presuming there *is* a "right" side...very hard questions arise.It's all in how you look at it, Grasshopper. ******** Oh- and becca.elpy--I SO LOVE your "gumby's long lost headless blue twin brothers" idea! Do you work for the CSI folks? LOL!>^~~^<

*shudder* That original logo is a generic University of Kentucky logo (I go to UK...). That CCC rendition of it is just, wow... It hurts my eyes! I'm going to have to share this with other UK students...

Poor Key---did you figure it out yet? CCC stands for cup cake cake===cup cakes arranged into a shape and then iced as a cake. Lazy folks think it is great because you don't have to have a knife to cut the cake.

and WV means word verification as in my word is phypey, which sounds like a Chinese food dish.

Welcome to cake wrecks. The best sight for a good laugh. (except on Sundays where we snort quietly at true "beauty" and "art" and "culture" even though last Sunday's needed to be played around Halloween, in my opinion)

Wow. I have been following this blog for a little while, but this one inspired me to comment. My husband is a big UK fan, and we both just laughed so hard we had tears streaming down our faces. We darn near woke up the baby. That is a horrifyingly bad CCC. I'm going to refer back to this one whenever I need a good laugh. I feel like they could NOT have been serious? Right??

Its a sad day when our beloved UK Wildcat has been disgraced in this way! Yeah yeah.. almost as bad as our basketball season... hopefully Coach Calipari is on his way to help us (maybe even the cake too! LOL)

I have NEVER laughed so hard and so long at a Wreck before. This nearly killed me...I accidentally duplicated your coughing fit without even trying. I also ended up in tears and halfway off my chair, and then again when my husband came to investigate and I got to see *his* reaction too! Oh my sides. Best Wreck EVAR.

It is hard to believe that someone tried on that cake...I almost think that I could do better...almost! I wouldn't try with UK though ~ I would have to start with Duke. That way I know I wouldn't hurt anything important;p

SO AWESOME! I'm originally from IL & have lived in KY for almost 10 years...and UK logos are EVERYWHERE! I cannot wait to show this to my husband & forward this link to a few friends who are also IL transplants.

Glad to know that if my writing career falls through here in Louisville, I could always move down the road to Lexington and be a cake decorator! From the looks of this wreck, I might even be the best in town!

Oh, my goodness....I feel so horrible for the UK fan who really wanted a cake with the university's logo--and then THAT THING shows up at the party! And I think I most relate to the comments that deal with the fact that SOMEONE LET THIS CAKE LEAVE THEIR BAKERY/HOUSE/ACID TRIP...it's sad. I am not EVEN a cake decorator, and I could have done a better job than that! COME ON! :-)

Hahaha. I live in Lexington and am completely sick of hearing about the Wildcats, so this totally made my day, especially the 6 claws. I laughed for like 5 minutes straight. What a great website you have!

This cake is AWESOME. Not only can you celebrate your school spirit with this one, but the cake doubles as a "Congratulations, Graduate... on your new career working for the Kentucky Highway Roadkill Cleanup Crew".... hey- gotta pay those student loans off somehow, right?

OMG--I stayed up until 1 AM last night laughing at THIS--and here I am again, at WORK, showing it to my friend and peeing myself all over again! Headless blue Gumby attacks! Oh, it's too good! Thanks for the best laugh I've had in years--I'm a fan!

So they grabbed this guy off the the street, you know, the one that lives under the bridge at the end of the street, and said, "Hey fella, can you draw?". He said he could and the rest is history. Bet you he is the ghost tech-dude now too.

To all of those wondering why anyone would order a CCC of the UK logo, I'd lay dollars to donuts no one did order it.

You have to understand: the entire city of Lexington is totally obsessed with UK. Without UK, Lexington is basically a horse farm. The cement mixers running around town have the logo on them. Rick Pitino is still not allowed past Shelby County because he had the unmitigated gall to leave and then *gasp* *horrors* became the coach at the in-state rival, University of Louisville, up the road. Every grocery store in Lexington will always have blue and white cupcakes and cookies--every day. So this would have just been in the display case, like normal places would have a CCC of flowers or rainbows or whatever. Stop hating on the buyer because clearly they bought this monstrosity just to make our day.

I think the only folks who can truly understand how obsessed Lexington is with UK are the folks that live in Durham, because those Dukers are much the same.

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